Occupy Oakland explains the violence. Or doesn’t. (VIDEO)

As Comrades Bulwa, Berton and myself mentioned in Friday’s Chronicle/SFGate, Occupy Oakland and the 99 percenters have ANOTHER 1 percent problem: The 1 percent of its fringe who are responsible for the vandalism and violence that occurs after their demonstrations. Given their insatiable desire for images of fire and tear gas and mayhem, that’s what the TV coverage has focused on, and thus has shaped recent coverage of Occupy.

(Our 1 percent math: Oakland Police say 7,000 people participated in Wednesday’s general strike in Oakland and a little more than 70 were arrested in connection with the mayhem afterwards.)

Who’s going to take responsibility? Who is going to tell the self-styled anarchists to mellow out? Don’t look to Occupy Oakland.

Since Occupiers only officially act after reaching a consensus among their peeps, their representatives refused to disavow to the media anything that the anarchist fringe has done — because the Occupy Oakland group has not “consensed” to condemn it.

So really — much to the frustration of all parties involved — the Occupy representatives are not representative, since they say they don’t really represent the whole group, even when they’re leading press conferences to represent what the group’s message is.

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To give you a cinema verite slice of the challenges of conducting an interview in this dynamic, Comrade Marinucci happened by a news conference Thursday in Oakland. It’s unforgiveably long for a web video. But in response to those who complain about creative editing, we wanted to give you an unedited peek of this, in all of its 15-minutes of glory.

The woman speaking in the beginning is Barucha Peller, a longtime Bay Area and international activist. For a movement that preaches transparency and consensus and inclusiveness, she’s the one who abruptly tries to end the press conference after another Occupy movement member — speaking as an individual — began offering a different viewpoint.

One highlight: Go to the 12:30 minute mark. The man in the floppy-eared hat toward the end is Khalid Shakur. Listen to how the 43-year-old describes how some of the anarchists “romanticize” struggle and come from “well-to-do means.” (Aka: Trustafarian alert!!!)